Thursday, March 4, 2010

Lots of Books Read! First up, Airhead!

Well, in the past week or so, I've read quite a few books. I've finished Airhead, The House of the Scorpion, and Cycler. I'm nearly done with William Sleator's The Last Universe.
Anyway, we'll start with Airhead, as I read that first. Airhead, by Meg Cabot, is about a tomboyish girl named Em Watts (short for Emerson), who is forced by her mother to accompany her younger, girlier sister to a store opening. At the opening, she meets singer Gabriel Luna, who is signing CDs. Another worshipped celebrity (by Em's sister and friends) to appear is seventeen-year-old supermodel Nikki Howard. Shortly before Em and her sister reach the table where CDs are being signed, there is a crash. A huge plasma screen falls on Em, crushing her.
After, Em wakes up. Tediously, the book lets her recover. In my opinion, far too many chapters and pages are devoted to this part.
In the hospital, she is visited by Gabriel, and later, Nikki's friends Lulu and Brandon. They kidnap her and bring her to her apartment. When Em returns to the hospital, they finally tell her she can go, but not before explaining her predicament. You see, when Em looked in the mirror, she didn't see herself. She saw Nikki.
At the hospital, a doctor explains to her that at the same time as Em's accident, Nikki had a brain anyeurism, making her brain dead. Em, however, had a functioning brain though her body was destroyed. So her brain was surgically put into Nikki's body.
The problem is, Em Watts can't exist anymore, since the surgery is highly controversial. She's had a funeral, and everyone except the doctors and her immediate family (mother, father, sister) thinks that she's dead. This includes Em's best friend, Christopher, whom she has a crush on. Devastated, Em decides she wants her new life as close to her old life. She enrolls at her old high school, which, of course, because of her "death", has a spot open in her class.
Being a famous supermodel doesn't make it easy for Em to get through school. She's taking her old classes, but people are constantly asking her to autograph things and sit with them at lunch. Her old nemeses, whom Em dislikes, as they're mean girls, even want to befriend her!

The book ends on a little bit of a cliffhanger, so I'm planning on getting the next book, Being Nikki, when it's in paperback (I try not to buy hardcover unless I'm really desperate to read the book). Anyway, I thought it was good. I was a little annoyed at one part, thinking it was going to be a shallow Gossip Girl (okay, I admit I've read that series as well) type thing, but it's more about Em trying to get her old life back and live her life in a body that was the complete opposite of her.

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